作者
Sreekanth R Cheruku, Alexis Barina, Corey D Kershaw, Kristina Goff, Joan Reisch, Linda S Hynan, Farzin Ahmed, Donna Lee Armaignac, Love Patel, Katherine A Belden, Margit Kaufman, Amy B Christie, Neha Deo, Vikas Bansal, Karen Boman, Vishakha K Kumar, Allan Walkey, Rahul Kashyap, Ognjen Gajic, Amanda A Fox
发表日期
2022/1/1
期刊
Resuscitation
卷号
170
页码范围
230-237
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Rationale
The impact of palliative care consultation on end-of-life care has not previously been evaluated in a multi-center study.
Objectives
To evaluate the impact of palliative care consultation on the incidence of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed and comfort care received at the end-of-life in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
Methods
We used the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s COVID-19 registry to extract clinical data on patients hospitalized with COVID-19 between March 31st, 2020 to March 17th, 2021 and died during their hospitalization. The proportion of patients who received palliative care consultation was assessed in patients who did and did not receive CPR (primary outcome) and comfort care (secondary outcome). Propensity matching was used to account for potential confounding variables.
Measurements and Main Results
3,227 patients were included in the analysis. There was no …
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